[mythtv-users] pcHDTV card

[Jason Schloer]

Just to chime in I just got mine yesterday too. Finally got it working
this morning. The audio is muxed into transport, so no worries there.
The audio cable is definitely just for analog ntsc signals. I spent an
extra tw hours at lunch today trying to get a roof mount up and running.
After all that time I ended up giving up and when I brought the radio
shack brand HDTV roof antenna down to the ground ended up getting pretty
darn good reception. I'm in kind of a valley not too far from D.C. I'm
definitely getting CBS great, but struggling on some others. Good luck
on yours. I got just about as good a signal for an indoor antenna. I
think it may be that I'm too close to the power lines at my house.
Anyway, I've managed to get a few ts streams and am working on setting
up myth now. Keep us all informed of your experiences and I'll do the
same. LAter


Jason Schloer


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:35 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV card

For those that have asked me about my pcHDTV card... It arrived 
yesterday afternoon, but as I suspected, my reception is so bad that I 
can only get a few very fuzzy analog signals and not a whiff of HD. I'm 
off to see about a roof-mount antenna right now... I'm looking at 
probably a mid-range Terk or Channel Master and a pre-amp...

First impressions though: the installation is pretty easy, the included 
audio jumper is very nice (all internal, goes from the card to an aux 
CD-ROM-like input on my sound card; note that I believe this is only 
for analog signals, as HDTV signals should have the audio muxed into 
the transport stream). Directions are included for setting up under Red 
Hat 7.2 - 9 and Debian. I was unable to compile the driver against the 
latest ATrpms kernel source (this is due to recent changes in the v4l2 
api, I believe), but had no problems compiling against stock Red Hat 
2.4.20-20.9 source.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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